Reed-horn.



Patented September 8, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.@

SAMUEL GOLDBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO LEO SOHLESINGER,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

REED-HORN.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 738,181, dated September 8, 1903.

Application filed April 17, 1903. Serial No. 153,015. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL GOLDBERG, a citizen of the United States and a resident of the city, county, and State of New Yorlghave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reed-Horns, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to reed-horns; and it consists in certain means which provide an to outside attachment to the horn whereby the vibration of the reed or tongue maybe regulated to give sounds of various pitch, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In order to accomplish this, I have attached :5 a spring-wire to the outside of the reed-box or to the body portion of the horn, which wire is passed through the reed-box and may be pressed against the reed, so as to produce sounds of various pitch. By attaching this wire or spring from the outside the construction is made simpler and easier to manufacture. It is also possible to convert horns of usual construction already manufactured into horns embodying my improvements withoutthe addition of but slight expense and without taking them apart.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a horn made in accordance with my 0 improvements, partlyin section. Fig. 2 is an end view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a View similar to Fig. 1, showing a modification.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several 5 views.

In the embodiment of my invention illustrated in Fig. 1, 1 is a conical horn-body of usual construction, the front end or neck 2 of which is cut diagonally at 3 in the usual way. A cylindrical reed-box & is attached to the horn-body at 5 by means of solder or in any other desired way. A flat spring reed or tongue 6 is soldered to the neck 2 at 7 in the usual way, the opposite or free end being adapted to vibrate to produce sounds when air is blown through the reed-box.

The means for limiting the vibration of the reed and regulating the resultant tone, as shown in Fig. 1, comprises a spring-wire 8,

having an arm 9, soldered or otherwise suit ably secured to the exterior of. the body 1. at

sired to raise the pitch or key of the horn the wire or spring 8 is pressed inwardly,the arm 11 coming into the path or plane of vibration of the reed, which produces a sound of different pitch, the outward spring of the wire 8 withdrawing the arm 11 beyond the plane of vibration of the reed. The pitch may be intermittently varied by giving the wire 8 varied impulses.

In Fig. 3 is shown a modification in which the Wire or spring 8 is fixed to the body of a Wooden reed or box or mouthpiece 13, which is made separate from the body and adapted to be passed over the conical end or neck 2 of the body 1. In this form the end of the wire may be secured to the mouthpiece by inserting it in the enlarged end 14, the arm 11 passing freely through the hole 12, formed therein. The wire in this form operates precisely as that shown in Fig. 1. Instead of fixing the wire to the body 2 when the reedbox 4 isused it can be affixed in any suitable way to the said reed-box. I do not claim to be the first to have used a wire or a supplemental tongue for contacting with the reed, and therefore do not claim the same.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. A horn having a body, a reed-box secured to said body, a reed within said reedbox, and an arm, one end of which is secured to the outside of said reed-box and a part of said arm lying near, and adapted to be pressed against said reed, to alter the pitch.

2. A horn havinga body, a reed, a reedbox secured to said body, a Wire secured exteriorlyto the reed-box, and having an arm passing loosely through said reed-box, and adapted to be forced into contact with the reed to alter the pitch.

3. A horn having a body, a reed, a reedbox secured to the body, a spring-operated arm secured to the outside of said reed-box,

and passing through a hole formed in the r the exterior of the reed-box, and having an I5 latter and normally lying adjacent to but' arm passing througha hole therein. withoutrthe plane of vibration of said reed. 7. As an article of manufacture, a reed- 4. A horn having a body, a reed, a reedbox provided with a hole, a wire spring hav- 5 box secured to said body, and a spring having one end secured to the exterior of said ing an arm secured to the exterior of the box reed-box and a free and inturned end pass- 20 and passing through said reed-box. ing through said hole into the interior of said 5. A horn having a body, a reed, a reed-' reed-box. box secured to the body, a wire spring dis-' Signed at the city, county, and State of 10 posed longitudinally over the reed-box, and New York this 9th day of April, 1903.

having an arm passing through the reed-box SAM. GOLDBERG. adaptedto be pressed against said reed. \Vitnesses:

6. As an article of manufacture, a reed- PHIL. J. BEAR,

box, having a spring secured at one end to CHAS. G. HENSLEY. 

